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  Thread: How would you rate ION service so far?
Post: RE: How would you rate ION service so far?

I rather suspect the inconsistent door thing won't go away. It's definitely that way in Toronto, and while you could chalk it up to mixed operation of Flexities and legacy cars I doubt there's much i...
  Bureaucromancer Transportation and Infrastructure 35 16,777 06-26-2019, 06:18 PM
  Thread: How would you rate ION service so far?
Post: RE: How would you rate ION service so far?

I'm not going to be using it with much regularity, and don't live in KW anymore so take this as the view of... I guess a tourist with some local familiarity. The line is great, the service speed co...
  Bureaucromancer Transportation and Infrastructure 35 16,777 06-26-2019, 01:38 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit

You understand the PURPOSE of rail-trails is to preserve the corridors?! Where do you suggest we do OTHER than the trail?
  Bureaucromancer Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,867 06-23-2019, 05:23 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit

jwilliamson Wrote: (06-23-2019, 12:25 AM) -- Bureaucromancer Wrote: (06-22-2019, 11:54 PM) -- If re-building lines is in the picture my hope is that we can reuse the Cambridge to Paris Rail Trail an...
  Bureaucromancer Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,867 06-23-2019, 01:26 AM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit

If re-building lines is in the picture my hope is that we can reuse the Cambridge to Paris Rail Trail and on to Brantford. Create a DMU service running Guelph - Cambridge - Paris - Brantford - Hamilto...
  Bureaucromancer Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,867 06-22-2019, 11:54 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

I'd agree with the above. I seem to recall folks around here saying that about trespassing a couple years back. With much the same time as those who, quite aptly, "refuse to actually think about r...
  Bureaucromancer Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,510,802 07-15-2018, 12:13 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

Honestly, it's one thing that this happened in the first place, but who on earth is authorizing the signs trying to enforce the fencing?!? It takes a special kind of person to be aware of the issue, ...
  Bureaucromancer Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,510,802 07-14-2018, 08:29 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

darts Wrote: (08-18-2016, 09:49 PM) -- Similar to building codes, if you are doing considerable work in a building you have to update it to meet current codes/ standards. -- The point is that the T...
  Bureaucromancer Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,510,802 08-19-2016, 07:59 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

It seems like the proper solution would be to consider that section equivalent to street running, sign the hell out of it and acknowledge that the risk is quite manageable for a pedestrian path with t...
  Bureaucromancer Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,510,802 08-17-2016, 01:54 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

Canard Wrote: (07-10-2015, 10:55 PM) -- A little too vague for my liking!  That's what I was getting at.  It doesn't show any detail at all, really. We just had to replace our furnace.  Our HVAC g...
  Bureaucromancer Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,510,802 07-10-2015, 11:21 PM

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